4x TITANs huge problem with connectors - please help

Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:24 am

Guys,

I just assembled 4x TITAN on Asus Rampage IV Black Edition and I was shocked - how I am suppose to connect all of the cables under the lowest TITAN - marked on the screenshot. The 4th titan blocks them all. I also looked at other boards and the alignment of connectors seems to cause same problems.

So this question is to all of you Guys who solved this problem - how did you manage to connect the reset, hdd led, usb front panel, etc?

Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:49 am

Good question and I use an Asus III Rampage and it is the same problem with the lowest GPU.
I bend the pins a bit and it worked. but it is not a good solution for such a high-end board in terms of layout.

Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:56 am

I also bent only the power pins but I was afraid I could have damaged the motherboard.

Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:14 pm

You have 4 titans and you are complaining

I'll take one off of your hands if it will help you out.

Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:16 pm

steveps3 wrote:You have 4 titans and you are complaining

I'll take one off of your hands if it will help you out.

Unfortunately this is not my computer

Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:17 pm

I think someone needs to manufacture a solid (non-cable) riser that lifts the GPU about 1" - 1.5" and also moves it towards the inside of case by about an inch. And has a support bracket that screws down in the back (where you normally screw GPU in). Maybe these already exist though... Not in the market for this myself, currently.

Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:50 pm

I wrote to Asus and suggested that it is enough to rotate input pins by 90 deg. They said that they will pass it to technical department

So maybe in the future will see rotated pins...

Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:55 pm

smicha wrote:I wrote to Asus and suggested that it is enough to rotate input pins by 90 deg. They said that they will pass it to technical department So maybe in the future will see rotated pins...

Potetial problem rises here - some of cases have motherboard down to the ground (PSU in my rig is in top part), so if contacts would be rotated a lot of cases should be redesigned. Not a problem when You think, but some companies would rather not do this move that could cause loosing some sales, because of compatability. Those review sites are very picky & they form a lot of public oppinion.

Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:19 pm

Glimpse,
you are right and indeed this is the case preventing from creating rotated pins. The gap between Titan and connectors is about 5mm so maybe they come up with any adapter.

Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:31 am

Interesting topic. I was wondering about purchasing this Asus Rampage IV motherboard recently.

Maybe there is the answer somewhere else on the forum, but is it possible to mix Fermi and Kepler cards on a system ?

I have two GTX 580 3GB in a Cubix box, and I could plug the Cubix PCMCIA adapter on the fourth PCIE slot (it is very slim).

I would put two Titan cards on slots 2 and 3, and as I have two GTX 480 1.5GB, I could put one for the display in slot 1.

Do you think that Is it possible or would I encounter troubles with incompatible drivers or else ?